Archive for May, 2007

May Xbox Live Arcade Review and Recap

We’re in the third month of grading Xbox Live Arcade and so far we’ve seen it climb from a C in March to an A in April. Today we’ll take a look and see it it could keep up the score for May. The three areas of scoring are in game release frequency, pricing, and […]

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Mad Tracks Mini Review

Well, someone on the development team for Mad Tracks is a big fan of Mario Kart because they are very similar. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have the nice balance of weapons that Mario Kart has. I had heard good things about Mad Tracks before it was released on a couple podcasts I listen to so I […]

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Demo Review

Even though games based on movies generally suck I decided to give the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Demo a try last night. To start off with the level is longer than I expected in a demo. It was a pretty respectable length. I think I played it somewhere around 15 or 20 […]

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Onslaught Review

I know I just posted about a flash based tower defense games, but that was before I found Onslaught. Onslaught is another tower defense game, but with a great twist. Once you level up your towers they can work together to form combo attacks. There are 13 different combinations you can form using 3 to […]

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(More) Tower Defense Games

Flash Element TDI don’t know quite what it is about tower defense games, but they are a lot of fun. I took a look at a couple of them so far, but Flash Element TD is quickly becoming one of my favorites. With 7 different tower types and a nice range of upgrades the game […]

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Folding at Home

For those of you not familiar with Folding@Home it is a distributed computing project that simulations protein folding. The results of the simulations are then sent back to Standford and used to help find cures for diseases. From an average user’s point of view you just run a small application on your computer that will […]

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DiRT Demo Review

I’m not sure why I thought I should try the demo for DiRT. After trying the Forza 2 demo I was very quickly reminded of how badly I suck at racing games. I gave the DiRT demo a try anyway and found that I’m better at it than I am at Forza 2. I can […]

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No Xevious or Rush’n Attack Mini Reviews

Most weeks when new Xbox Live Arcade games are released you’ll find a mini review here, on my blog, about them within a day or two. This week I’m not going to be reviewing either Xevious or Rush’n Attack because I could not make myself play either one of them long enough to be able […]

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Best Online Community Ever – AGE

I wanted to take a minute and mention AdultGamingEnthusiasts.com to everyone. The site is focussed around bring adult gamers together in a place where they can discuss games and organize groups of adult gamers to play together. The majority of the people on AGE are Xbox 360 owners, but there is a little something for […]

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Joost Invite Update

When I opened my offer to send Joost invites to anyone who requests them I never thought I’d get over 500 of them, but at this rate I’ll hit 500 before the end of the week. I’m still sending out Joost invites to anyone who wants them so if you’re interested in checking out the […]

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